An ongoing project which started in the beginning of 2025, and will continue in accordance with the possibility to visit my homeland, due to the ongoing war.

Raised in the stark light of the Mediterranean, I return as a photographer to landscapes long familiar—dusty hues, harsh sun, and surfaces stripped of mystery. In a place where beauty rarely hides, I search for it in subtler forms: texture, repetition, the quiet persistence of the everyday.

This is an attempt to engage with my roots not through nostalgia, but through observation. By reframing what once felt too exposed to hold grace, I explore the tension between recognition and reinterpretation—between the seen and the felt. In the quiet work of framing and reframing, of looking again and again, I’m beginning to make peace with the landscape that made me. This search - for resonance, for acceptance, for a kind of home -has become my way of seeing.
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